Word: squatness
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Texas has a loyalty oath, a short, squat slip of paper which every student, officer, and employee of a Texas-supported institution of higher learning must sign...
...Later, more drugs were dropped by an R.C.A.F. plane and food was hauled in. In the windowless, filthy hovels, modern nursing techniques were impossible. Said Nurse Bond: "It was not the easiest thing to look professional in Arctic regalia, crawling into a tepee on hands & knees and having to squat on the saliva-spattered ground while the smoke from the bonfire blinded one. Our favorite expression soon became klootna-kloon [too much smoke] . . . and it was flattering to enter the wigwams and be greeted with chai-wootcha [good woman...
Hour after hour, as the blocks-long, four-abreast line of patient, pious Mexicans inched forward, a squat, swarthy man moved stolidly along with it. It was worth the trouble, he reflected. It was not every day that a Mexican could see so holy a relic with his own eyes. It was not every day that a Belgian monk, trying to promote peace in the Holy Land, arrived on a world tour with a splinter from Jesucristo's own cross. Dios, what excitement! Red Cross ambulances screamed up & down, carting off women & children trampled in the crush...
...long last, the squat man was inside the elaborate baroque doors of the San Francisco church. Over the rebozo-covered heads of the women ahead of him, he could actually see the ten-foot cross with its glass box containing the holy splinter mounted at its center. His pulse beat faster. Finally, as he came abreast of the cross, his pocket knife flashed. Shrilly, the woman behind him screamed. "Virgen santisima! A sacrilege! This man has cut a piece of the Holy Cross...
...Last week, as boss of Anderson, Clayton & Co., world-trading cotton brokers, Will Clayton showed just what he meant. In Mexico, alongside the highway from Saltillo to Monterrey, rimmed by 12,000-ft. peaks of the Sierra Madre, he opened a new $3,000,000 food-processing plant. Square, squat and red brick, it looked much the same as any other plant from the outside. But inside, 5,000 opening-day visitors last week found the most mechanized food factory south of the Rio Grande...